Mr. Lady Records

Mr. Lady Records was an American record label based in San Francisco and existed from 1996 to 2004. Besides music on the label also videos were laid.

Company History

The label was founded in 1996 in Durham, North Carolina Kaia Wilson and Tammy Rae Carland. Mr. Lady Records pursued his goal of creating a forum for political and queer music.

Figurehead of the label, the band Le Tigre, who published her first two albums on Mr. Lady Records. LeTigre succeeded with a mix of electronic music and punk to communicate internationally successful feminist and queer content. Despite the larger and commercial success with LeTigre the label was forced to retire in 2004 due to financial problems.

Orientation

Influenced by the Riot Grrrl movement of the early 1990s, Mr. Lady Records, specializing in artists with feminist, lesbian and queer content. With bands like Le Tigre, Tracy The Plastics, The Need and drag artists like Vaginal Davis had Mr. Lady Records a major influence on the development of Queer cores and queer subcultures.

In this case, the label was based on the feminist subcultures of the U.S. west coast with its focus in Portland / Olympia and San Francisco. Together was the band of the political claim, stilisitische requirements did not exist, however. However, an emphasis on queer music with electro and punk influences, a style of music will be described with terms such as " queercore ", " Electro Punk" and "Homo Core". In these genres Mr. Lady Records is often seen as style icon.

To motivate the label declared Kaia Wilson, Mr. Lady Records was founded, "to be at outspokenly feminist / political record and video label did put out great music by like minded musicians, to try and help our artists take the musical route did Represents Their values ​​, to be a fair business did caters to the ladies, freaks and fags. "

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